Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a good [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has built a good team and has a wonderful opportunity and the will to see it through . |
| 2 | She thinks the Board has done a good job and what would it be replaced with ? |
| 3 | Alison spent 17 days in hospital after the shooting , but has made a good recovery and is back home in Trimdon Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough . |
| 4 | Export in particular has had a good year and during 1991 we are forecast to deliver an all time record tonnage of malt to 40 customers in 33 countries . |
| 5 | Fashanu , ignored since being capped twice by Bobby Robson three years ago , said : ‘ Alan has had a good start but that does n't put him in the class of Ian . |
| 6 | He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him . |
| 7 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
| 8 | They must have done a good job and not over ‘ humanised ’ her because her introduction to the chimp group was problem-free . |
| 9 | Now that 's partly due to having got a good result and performance , but more so because of the feeling of togetherness we now have in the squad . |
| 10 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 11 | Hector McLean the eminent scholar in Anthropology and Celtic Literature who gave so much help to J , F. Campbell in the preparation of " Popular Tales of the West Highlands " must have had a good library and another schoolmaster at Ballygrant , Neil MacAlpine , can not have compiled his Gaelic Dictionary without one . |
| 12 | Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance . |
| 13 | And if we put a little bit more effort into specifying requirements more tightly , then there 'd be less argument at the end of the day as to whether we 've done a good job or a bad job . |
| 14 | She said er did she go to your mum , Oh you 've done a good job and |
| 15 | I 've lost count of the times I 've made a good catch and returned the next night ( or day as the case may be ) only to blank or , at best , catch a fraction of the previous night 's catch . |
| 16 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 17 | I 've got a good idea and this time it 'll work . ’ |
| 18 | I 've got a good job and , although I 'm not going out with anybody right now , I have a lot of close friends . |
| 19 | Brian Horton says they 're really looking forward to it … it 's going to be a tough season … but they 've got a good team and are going to play adventerous football |
| 20 | Of the players , Gooch in particular had had a good tour and was really beginning to fulfil his potential , but the difference between the two bowling attacks seemed just to be increasing . |
| 21 | He was a contented man for he had a good wife , a prosperous farm in Upper Caversham some four miles from Reading market , had had a good season and a financially successful day . |
| 22 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 23 | As for Norwich they 've had a good start and will take some stopping . |
| 24 | As before , he was concerned to hear that we had enjoyed a good flight to his native city , had found a good hotel and that we were managing to survive the bitter cold , the snow and the ice of a Canadian winter . |
| 25 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 26 | The police have done a good job but it 's very difficclt unless you catch them with a box of matches . |
| 27 | Whether they , they feel , they feel better and whether that 's because the nurses have done a good job or not . |
| 28 | He obviously likes Jimmy Page and it 's pretty easy to tell where he 's coming from , but he 's got a good sound and it 's really fresh . |
| 29 | He 's got a good job and mine ai n't that bad . |
| 30 | Besides , she 's got a good husband and I hope she 'll be very happy with him . |